![]() ![]() The discovery confirmed his lifelong sense of himself as an outsider.įrom Oxford to Weimar Germany. Spender did not discover his Jewish ancestry until he was sixteen. The Spender family was of mixed German, Jewish, and English origin. Both parents died while Spender was still an adolescent. Stephen Harold Spender was born February 28, 1909, in London, to Harold Spender, a liberal political journalist, and his wife, Violet Hilda, an invalid who painted and wrote poetry. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮarly Loss of Parents. After the Second World War, Spender produced less poetry and concentrated on critical and autobiographical writing, editing, and lecturing at universities in England and the United States. Like others in the group, Spender wrote with a social and political consciousness, reflecting such turbulent events as the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of fascism, and World War II. Stephen Spender is best known as a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s known as the Oxford Poets. GENRE : Poetry, nonfiction, drama, fiction ![]()
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